How to reference/source a custom .vimrc file

Question

Is there a way to reference (or \"source\") another user\'s .vimrc file?

When I kuu (a variant of su that uses kerberos security tokens) to

Answer 1

I've only ever attempted this a few times and this seems to work fine for me. Define an alias for vim that is something like the following:

alias vim="HOME=~yournormaluser vim -c 'let \$HOME = \"$HOME\"'"

What this does is trick vim into using your $HOME/.vim/ environment, yet resets $HOME from within vim so doing things like :e ~/something.txt will still use the admin user's $HOME.

This has the added advantage that you don't have to change the admin's ~/.vimrc at all.